Shoe-shine recorder



Feb. 6, 1934. E D FAGELSON 1,946,395

SHOE SHINE RECORDER Filed June 23, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l Feb. 6, 1934. E. D. FAGELSON SHOE SHINE RECORDER 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 23, 1932 Patented F cl). 6, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE 4 Claims of shines for which the box has been used. Such a device will prevent a dishonest employee from appropriating money due the box owner.

Another object is to furnish a shoe shine box having a treadle that is depressed when a person places his foot upon the same to have a shoe shined, such treadle causing the opening of the compartment in which the paste, brushes, cloths, etc. are carried, and also actuating a pencil or marker which will record the movement of the treadle on a movable paper tape or the like. The number of movements recorded on the tape will enable the owner of the box to check on the employee.

With the foregoing objects outlined and with other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel features hereinafter described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings,

Figure l is a perspective view of the improved box with the front door open.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the same with the rear door open.

Figure 3 is a' longitudinal vertical sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a transverse vertical sectional view 35 on the line l-4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a plan view of a portion of the paper tape on which the number of shines is recorded.

Referring to the drawings, 6 designates any suitable form of a portable box which may be carried by means of the handle 7. The interior of the box is divided by a horizontal partition 8 and a transverse vertical partition 9 into an upper compartment 10, a front compartment 11, and a rear chamber 12. Access may be had to the front compartment by means of a doorway which is normally closed by a door 13 that is hinged at 14 to one of the side walls of the box.

The central portion of the compartment 11 is preferably provided with a drawer 15 to 'house polish, paste, cloths or the like, while the spaces at the opposite sides of the drawer may contain brushes, etc.

A lever 16 is pivotally mounted at 17 on a horizontal shaft which is supported by stationary posts 18, and one end of the lever extends upwardly through a slot 19 in the top of the box and terminates in a treadle 20 that receives the shoe of the customer.

The lever 16 is normally held in a neutral posltion by a saddle 21 which is suspended from spring links 22 that are supported by a bar 23, and the ends of this bar are supported by the sides of the box.

A post 24 is mounted in the compartment 10 and has a vertical notch 25 for guiding the lever. The latter, when depressed, functions to unlock the front door 13, as will now be described. This door has secured to its inner side an angular member 25 which has a hole 26 in the horizontal portion of the same. A vertically movable pin 2! normally extends into said hole, and is guided by the partition 8. A lever 28 that is pivotally mounted at 29, is pivotally connected at 30 to the upper end or the pin, and the opposite end of the lever is normally held in an elevated position by means of a spring 31. Consequently, the pin will normally hold the door in locked position, but as soon as the lever 16 is depressed, it will strike the lateral'extension 32 of the member 28, and this will result in the lifting of the pin 27 out or" the hole 26. Now, a leaf spring 33 which is secured to the door 13 and bears against the side of the box, will act to throw the front door open and the articles in the compartment 11 will then be accessible to the shoe shiner.

For the purpose of recording movements of the treadle 20, the rear end of the lever 16 is connected by a link 34 to the upper end of a lever '35 which is pivotally mounted at its medial portion on a horizontal shaft 36 that is supported by the partition 8. The lower end of this lever extends between two spring arms 37 and 38 which are supported by a bracket 39 mounted on the partition 9. Whenever the lever 16 is depressed from neutral position, it will cause movement of spring arm 38 and the pencil 40 carried by that arm, and if the treadle 20 is raised from neutral position, the spring arm 37 will be moved laterally and in turn, will move the pencil 41 which it carries. One of these pencils may be red and the other black if desired. Both pencils mark upon a paper tape 42, and as best shown in Figure 2, a roll 43 of such tape may be removably mounted on a horizontal pin 44 supported by the partition 9. From the roll 43, the tape is trained over a wheel or pulley 45 that may be carried by a shaft 45 of the clock work 46 and rotated by it. An idler 47 mounted on the frame of the clock work holds the tape in contact with the wheel 45. A take-up roll 48 is mounted on a horizontal stub shaft 49, and is turned in one direction by a coiled spring 50. A handle 51 normally supported by the bottom of the box, may be detached from saidbottom and be inserted in a hole 52 of the roll 48, for the purpose or turning that roll and winding the spring 50. Then, when the end of the tape is attached to the roll 48, as indicated at 53, and the clock work is set in motion, the takeup roll will act to wind the tape on the same, as it is advanced by the wheel 45.

While the lever 16 is in neutral position, the pencils will simply make two parallel lines 54 and 55 on the tape, as shown in Figure 5, but whenever the treadle is depressed, the pencil will move laterally so as to make a transverse mark 56. Now, while a shoe is being shined, the pencil 40 will continue along a line 57 until the shining of that shoe is completed, and the customer raises his foot. At such time, the pencil 40 under influence of its spring-arm 38 Will move back to normal position, as indicated at 58, and then, when the customer places the other foot on the treadle, that pencil will again move outwardly as indicated at 59. As soon as the shine is complete, the same pencil will move inwardly as indicated at 60, and will then continue on its normal course until another customer uses the box.

In case the shoe shiner props the treadle 20 upwardly to prevent recording then the lever 35 is moved in the opposite direction and presses sidewise the spring arm 3'7 carrying the pencil 41 which comes into play and records this fraudulent operation, as indicated at 61.

The rear compartment is normally closed by a hinged door 62 that is secured against opening by a lock 63, the key of which is kept by the owner. The key 64 for the clock work may be supported by a bracket 65 on the inner side 01' the rear door.

In operation, it will be understood that before a shoe shiner starts his day with such a box, the owner has wound the clock work and placed the tape 42 in position for recording, say over a period of twelve hours, and both doors 13 and 62 will be locked. From that time on the shoe shiner can only have access to the materials by actuating the treadle 20, and of course, each time this is done, the operation will be recorded.

From the foregoing the construction, operation and advantages of the invention may be -readily understood, and it is apparent that changes may be made in the details disclosed, without departing from the spirit of the invention as expressed in the claims.

It will be noted that the shoe-shine attendant cannot have access to his working implements until the door to the compartment containing the implements is unlocked and opened, and that when and as the locking pin of the door is retracted by depressing lever 16 the recordin: devices actuated by said lever are set into action so as to make a record that will indicate access has been had by the attendant to the compartment containing his working utensils and thus an additional check placed upon his acts.

What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A shoe-shine recorder comprising a casing,

a lever pivotally mounted at one end and provided at its opposite end with a foot-pedal disposed outside of the casing, means for supporting said lever in a neutral position; a plurality of marker carrying arms disposed in relation to a traveling record receiving member to make a record by each marker on said member, a pivotally mounted lever connected at one end with the pedal lever and having its free end lying between the plurality of marker arms and operable upon displacement of the pedal lever from neutral position to move one of the markers to change the path of its record demarcation on the record receiving member.

2. A shoe-shine recorder comprising a casing, 96

a lever pivotally mounted at one end and provided at its opposite end with a foot-pedal disposed outside of the casing, a resilient arm carrying a marker disposed to contact with a traveling record-receiving member, a pivotally mounted 190 lever connected at one end with the pedal operable lever and having its free end lying adjacent the resilient arm carrying the marker and upon depression of the pedal operable lever from normal position moving the marker laterally to change the line of record demarcation to indicate the duration of depression of the pedal lever and upon the pedal lever resuming neutral position restoring the marker to normal marking position, and a spring operating to restore the pedal iii) lever to neutral position.

3. A shoe-shine recorder comprising a casing, a pivoted lever provided at one end with a footpedal disposed outside of the casing, a resilient arm carrying a marker disposed to contact with a traveling record-receiving member, a pivoted lever connected with the pedal lever and having its free end lying adjacent the resilient arm carrying the marker, said lever, upon movement of the pedal lever above its neutral position, op-

erating to move the marker to change the line of record demarcation during the period of elevation of the pedal lever above neutral position and, upon the pedal lever resuming neutral position, restoring the marker to normal marking position.

4. In a shoeshine recorder including a casing, a lever provided at one end with a foot-pedal disposed outside of the casing, a record receiving member, and a marker for making a record of the movement of the pedal lever; a door to a compartment of the casing for containing shoeshine accessories, a lever positioned in the path of movement of the pedal operable lever and provided witha locking pin to engage a keeper to lock the door in closed position, said locking-pin carrying lever being positioned to be actuated by the pedal operated lever to retract the door locking pin to permit access to the shoe-shine acceswill be retracted and a record made of the locking pin retraction.

EDWARD D. FAGELSON. 

